Turkish prime minister's wife visits Uludere

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s wife Emine Erdoğan, together with family and state officials, has visited Uludere’s Ortasu village, where a military air raid killed 34 civilians in December 2011, Hurriyet Daily News reports.

“We came here even though it is late, we cried together. We said that all of us were brothers and sisters and that no one could divide us. If mothers want it, peace can be established,” Emine Erdoğan said after her meeting with the relatives of the victims.

Erdoğan was accompanied by her daughter Sümeyye Erdoğan, Deputy Prime Minister Beşir Atalay and Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Şahin. They came together with the families of the victims in the house of the village headman Haşim Enü, where prayers were made in both Kurdish and Turkish.

Following their visit, Deputy PM Beşir Atalay said they went to Uludere both to give their condolences and to listen to the families.